After years of decline, glaciers in Norway are again growing, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE). The actual magnitude of the growth, which appears to have begun over the last two years, has not yet been quantified, says NVE Senior Engineer Hallgeir Elvehøy.

The flow rate of many glaciers has also declined. Glacier flow ultimately acts to reduce accumulation, as the ice moves to lower, warmer elevations.

The original trend had been fairly rapid decline since the year 2000.

The developments were originally reported by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).

DailyTech has previously reported on the growth in Alaskan glaciers, reversing a 250-year trend of loss. Some glaciers in Canada, California, and New Zealand are also growing, as the result of both colder temperatures and increased snowfall.

Ed Josberger, a glaciologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, says the growth is "a bit of an anomaly", but not to be unexpected.

Despite the recent growth, most glaciers in the nation are still smaller than they were in 1982. However, Elvehøy says that the glaciers were even smaller during the 'Medieval Warm Period' of the Viking Era, prior to around the year 1350.

Not all Norwegian glaciers appear to be affected, most notably those in the Jotenheimen region of Southern Norway.

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Correction: CO2 was at the level of 0.03% in 1950. Now it's 0.038%. So, it's more than 20% more.It was never this high in last 400000 years, it was close to 0.02%, as you can see on many sites on the Net.The problem is that we used almost all of the coal and oil that was stored for 300000000 years in just 200 years. It's a lot of carbon...

We haven't used "almost all" the carbon. We've barely begun to touch coal deposits, and haven't even started on things like oil shale.

Also, there's a thousand times as much CO2 stored in the ocean as there is in the atmosphere. And guess what? When you warm water, the CO2 comes out. That's the real reason CO2 levels are climbing. It gets warmer, and the gas comes out.